AFAIK, the guy who wrote that Conversation piece isn’t vegan, nor were the people who wrote the QI question that inspired the article. So this just seems like a bunch of non-vegans appointing themselves the Vegan Police.

The official definition from the group that created the term only dictates that vegans avoid animal products “as far as practical and possible.” No one is expected to eschew medical care.

AFAIK, the guy who wrote that Conversation piece isn’t vegan, nor were the people who wrote the QI question that inspired the article. So this just seems like a bunch of omnivores appointing themselves the Vegan Police.

They literally came up with the word vegan back when the group was created, so yeah, I can understand how they’d think they’re the authority on what is and isn’t vegan.

North America has some of the highest meat consumption in the world, dude, so I kind of doubt that.

Dude, animals eat too. And although cattle and sheep can get some of their food via grazing, most of what farm animals eat is livestock feed. Which means humans had to grow crops to make that livestock feed - over a third of the world’s cropland is used to fatten up animals instead of feed humans. In the USA, it’s…

The US is one of the cheapest places to buy meat in the world, thanks to heavy subsidizing, and vegetarianism is still most popular with people on lower incomes.

it’s often seen as some kind of elitist thing that is out of reach of the average person

It took me a second to get the headline, because although I recognised Turnstile Lint in the profile pic, I know her as “That awful woman from the Mouth Diarrhea song,” or “Right Wing Troll Barbie,” and it took me a second to recall her initials.

Australia. I can say I’ve seen poutine fairly often- it tends to show up at places which offer fries with a variety of fancy sauces/toppings.

I recall being really tickled at how much Karl Urban resembled Grumpy Cat throughout Dredd, though from what I hear that’s accurate to the comics, and it didn’t take away from the movie for me.

In France, that’s already happened - sausages have to be meat. IDK about burgers. Which seems extra dumb to me, because sausages are more about the shape and the way they’re cooked than the contents - you can have chicken sausages, pork sausages, beef sausages, ect. so why not veggie sausages too?

Meatloaf isn’t very popular here - I’ve seen it a lot in American pop culture, but that’s about it. I’m not exactly sure why, but I somehow got the impression as a kid that it was made by mashing up various leftovers and baking them into a loaf.

According to the website itself, you need their special products to “Earth,” while inside. So yeah, even according to them it makes no difference whether this person takes their shoes on or off at a restaurant.

I was really curious about that as well. Turns out they monetize it by offering insanely overpriced products so people can “Earth,” while indoors. Like blankets, mats, body patches ect. with cords that you plug into an grounded electrical outlet. Except instead of electricity, they care about getting “Vitamin G,” from…

I sincerely can’t tell whether you’re joking or truthfully answering the question.

I just watched this episode, and figured he was going to be a real guy in the opening scene. Admittedly, this was entirely because Wynonna Earp also had a neglected small child whose “imaginary friend,” was actually a very real adult using her to help him do shady shit. At least no one on The Mick got killed.

Yeah, I know. I had an illuminating conversation with my uncle a couple of months ago wherein he bragged about his sweatshop pants, how environmentally destructive his job was, and how little he cares about factory farming. Meanwhile, he was also taking any chance to jump on anyone else who DID care about any of these…

So then why not say that in the first place, instead of arguing that vegans are actually killing more animals?

So because we can’t completely eliminate the issue, the people who’ve massively reduced it are hypocritical assholes? I mean damn, man, we can’t completely wipe out our environmental footprint either - but we can, and should, try to reduce it.